The author provides a perfectly detailed account of what it was like to be young in the sixties and an eyewitness to America's most tumultuous years. As he was about to join the Marine Corps, he was given an opportunity to become part of a group attached to the US State Department that was trained to observe and report on counter-cultural and supposedly subversive groups operating on American soil. Instead of rooting out Communist intercession, the author describes how his mind was enlarged by experiencing other thoughts and other voices.